[xep-support] blanks in fo:block

[David Tolpin]

> Hello,
> 
> is this behavior correct?
> 
> imagine this:
> 
> <fo:block>
> 	<xsl:value-of select="./first_name"/> <xsl:value-of
> select="./last_name"/>
> </fo:block>
> 
> between the 2 xsl:value-of's I would like to put a blank but after
> rendering, the blank is lost.. The only thing that worked until now is to
> put white "dot" on a white background.

The simplest guess is that is not a falure of an XSL FO processor,
but a documented behaviour of XSLT. Text nodes consisting only
of blanks are discarded by default. Wrap them in xsl:text.

David Tolpin
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